I think, without going into a great deal of detail, the difficulty is that the way suspend or hibernation is implemented depends on what the BIOS does, which, in turn, depends on proprietary information tied to the manufacturer and Windows.

The real solution is to replace the BIOS, if the manufacturer provides information which makes this possible. Amazingly, the coreboot project has done this for a number of motherboards. (Unfortunately, OLPC seems to be the only such laptop. ) Couldn't we offer a Puppy kernel as a "payload" for coreboot?

Note: the possibility of selling large numbers of motherboards for high-performance computing clusters caused manufacturers to disclose information for motherboards used in bids for these. The possibility of installing a Puppy kernel through coreboot has tempted me to buy one of the obsolete servers now glutting the market. Time to take my medication, again.

Added: I forgot to mention that Jemimah has suspend to RAM working on Puppeee beta. You can simply close the netbook, and suspend. So far, it seems reliable. This is, of course, only for the ASUS Eee-PCs.

Then try 'acpitool -s' to suspend. Hibernation is 'acpitool -S' but it won't work if hibernation support is not in the kernel.

You'll probably have the best luck on newer machines with newer kernels.

On my thinkpad R40 I use often acpitool -s to my satisfaction.
Acpitool had to be installed separately and does apparently not defpend on a puppy version.
The one I use now is dpup484b4_________________Time savers:
Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu).
Consult Wikka
Use peppyy's puppysearch

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